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#31

Season's Chat - CCC / Re: an idea for 2025 Christmas...

Last post by Victor Narl - January 11, 2026, 10:19:00 AM

@Duplode, thanks for the congratulations. This was my debut in CCC and I never expected such success from myself. This was a challenging competition with an unprecedentedly tight deadline. I was only saved by having a lot of free time during those days, but I see that not all the riders were able to cope with such a short deadline, especially in the third stage, and because of this, the competition lost a lot of interest. Therefore, for future similar competitions, I would like to see a more lenient/loyal deadline, and I think other riders will support me in this proposal. Thanks to all the organizers and designers. I would also like to see a new stage of the NTT competition this year.

#32

Competition 2026 / Re: Custom cars for 2026

Last post by Duplode - January 11, 2026, 08:02:02 AM

After reviewing recent threads, here's my proposal for 2026:

- Ferrari Testarossa
- Melange XGT-88
- Williams Renault FW12C
- Chevrolet Silverado Monster Truck
- DAF Siluro Turbo Spec

And here is my proposal of starting bonuses for this list:



The coefficients were worked out in the same way as last year: start from the end-of-season base bonuses, add the new cars at what should be reasonably competitive values relative to the others, and tweak the numbers so that the global sum stays at 176. A spreadsheet making those steps more explicit is attached.

#33

Competition 2026 / Re: Cars and rules for 2026

Last post by Duplode - January 11, 2026, 06:59:53 AM

Seeing no further comments, my plan is to confirm the 2025 ruleset, including PTB as-is.

That's a sensible choice.

While I'm on record in favour of keeping PTB as-is for this year with an eye to possibly tweaking the system for 2027, I also wanted to do some analysis of the 2025 PTB data and bring it to the table so we'd have a better picture of how well it worked and potential things to improve. I'm sorry I couldn't come up with that on time for this thread, off-Stunts matters to deal with made it hard for me to sustain focus over these last few months. In any case, I'll work on it as soon as feasible.

(Another thing I was thinking about a few weeks ago was yet another approach to try keeping powergear cars in check. It's fine to leave that for the next preseason as well, if it still makes sense by then -- I do think, after all, that we're slowly but steadily learning how to live with PG under the current rule set.)

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#34

Season's Chat - CCC / Re: an idea for 2025 Christmas...

Last post by Duplode - January 11, 2026, 04:47:13 AM

These are the final standings across the three rounds. Congratulations to @Victor Narl , overall winner of the Christmas Event!

• NRL: 4×22 + 3×23 + 3×13 = 196
• ALA: 4×20 + 3×19 + 3×7 = 158
• DUP: 4×9 + 3×16 + 3×7 = 105
• SPO: 4×14 + 3×9 + 3×0 = 83
• ROT: 4×7 + 3×13 + 3×0 = 67
• CAS: 4×5 + 3×0 + 3×0 = 20
• STC: 4×1 + 3×4 + 3×1 = 19

Thanks to @stanceboyCZ for the event concept (and also for making sure we actually had a track to race in mid-December!), to @Daniel3D for opening us the doors of his competition, to the designers of the rally cars that we have featured here, and last but not least to all the pipsqueaks who brought one or many of those cars to the track! 

#35

Season's Chat - CCC / Re: CCC03R3 - Blankenship

Last post by Duplode - January 11, 2026, 04:36:33 AM

The third and final race results have been published! -- congratulations to @Victor Narl , who had 4 out of 4 top times in this round, as well as the one lap under two minutes!

#36

Racing Games & Other Competitions / Re: Travel Through Time

Last post by dreadnaut - January 11, 2026, 01:14:49 AM

If you want to play on your original 48K, the "side-chapter" Rubinho Cucaracha supports it . But I'm a spoiled guy and use an emulator.

My 48K is back in Italy, so I'll have to make do with an emulator as well!

#37

Racing Games & Other Competitions / Re: Travel Through Time

Last post by HerrNove - January 10, 2026, 10:04:19 PM

Wow, it's really impressive to squeeze something like that out of the ZX Spectrum, even the 128K version. I'll definitely check book and game out, thank you!

If you want to play on your original 48K, the "side-chapter" Rubinho Cucaracha supports it . But I'm a spoiled guy and use an emulator.

Which reminds me I forgot to provide a download link. The game is available from its entry on Spectrum Computing.

#38

Competition 2026 / Re: Cars and rules for 2026

Last post by dreadnaut - January 10, 2026, 07:24:51 PM

I mean, for 2026! 😅

#39

Racing Games & Other Competitions / Re: Travel Through Time

Last post by dreadnaut - January 10, 2026, 07:23:15 PM

Wow, it's really impressive to squeeze something like that out of the ZX Spectrum, even the 128K version. I'll definitely check book and game out, thank you!

#40

Competition and Website / New features 2026

Last post by dreadnaut - January 10, 2026, 07:18:19 PM

New year, new thread, new improvements! (See also: 2025)

Let's open with PTB support:

- there's finally a place for it the database
- Podium Time Bonus points appear on track and season scoreboards ✅

To get PTB in I had to tidy up the way we handle all bonus points, which cleaned up a few things, and now Leading Time, Time Difference, and Endurance bonuses appear in the right seasons through history. For example, 2024 includes LTB and TDB.